Creating and Managing Components and .NET Assemblies

Create and modify a .NET assembly

  • Assemblies are the basic unit for reuse, versioning, security, and deployment of components that are created by using the .NET Framework. Each assembly includes an assembly manifest that stores the assembly's metadata.

  • Depending on the number of files that make up an assembly, it is called a single-file or a multifile assembly.

  • A private assembly is an assembly that is available only to clients in the same directory structure as the assembly. A shared assembly can be referenced by more than one application and is stored in the machinewide global assembly cache (GAC). A shared assembly must be assigned a cryptographically strong name.

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